Tom Friedman

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Untitled (Dollar Bill, back), 2011

Sagaponack

Tom Friedman was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1965. He now lives and works in Massachusetts.

Friedman’s uses laborious, painstakingly precise and unexpected methods to create work that is often autobiographical, drawing on random elements from his own life and surroundings. Using everyday materials including styrofoam, paint, paper, card, clay, wire, plastic, hair and fuzz, he pays obsessive attention to detail in each work, particularly in the replication of personal characteristics. Friedman states: “Art, for me, is a context to slow the viewer’s experience from their everyday life in order to think about things they haven’t thought about. Or to think in a new way.”

This year, a major new acquisition by The Contemporary Austin, Texas, was installed on the grounds of the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park. Towering nearly thirty- three feet high, ‘Looking Up’ is the largest work of art by the artist to date. In 2014, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel installed Friedman’s major work ‘Up in the Air’ as part of a series of site-specific installations at the Lightfall.

Recent solo exhibitions include

  • Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2014)

  • Luhring Augustine, New York, USA (2014)

  • Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2012)

  • Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm

  • touring to FRAC Montpellier, France (2010)

  • Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA (2009)

Works appear in

  • Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

  • Guggenheim Museum, New York

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York

  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

  • Magasin 3